Meaning of faburden | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of counterpoint with a drone bass.
2. A succession of chords of the sixth.
3. A refrain.
   obsolete

Examples

“[B]ecause he obseru'd Ergo was the deadly clap of the piece, […] hee accustomed to make it the Faburden to anie thing hee spake; As if anie of his companions complained hee was hungrie, hee would straight conclude Ergo you must goe to dinner; or if the clocke had stroke or bell towld, Ergo you must goe to such a Lecture; […]”

“They haue all of them one and the same manner of tune in their singing; and commonly they make three rests in their song, besides the fa-burden in the end, which is a kind of grone.”

“But yet; like, finding his like: it expelleth that like: say you still: and this is the faburden of your song.”

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